[133139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: U.S. officials deny technical takedown of WikiLeaks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sun Dec 5 00:11:38 2010
In-Reply-To: <20101205050238.GA32187@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:09:43 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 2010, Ken Chase wrote:
>
>> And if they come and ask the same but without a court order is a bit
>> trickier and more confusing, and this list is a good place to track the
>> frequency of and responce to that kind of request.
>
> Except of course when you're "asked" not to share what has occured with
> anyone. I hear that kind of thing happens today.
>
No -- iin the U.S., if you even reveal that you have been served with a
National Security Letter [1], you are in violation of the FISA [2] court
under the Patriot Act.
"Ask" is not the word I would use.
Fun stuff, eh?
- - ferg
[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/National_Security_Letter
[2]
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveil
lance_Act
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